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Date:      Fri, 09 Jul 1999 14:07:42 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Cc:        Gustavo V G C Rios <kernel@tdnet.com.br>, security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: suid/guid 
Message-ID:  <199907092007.OAA21400@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "09 Jul 1999 22:03:35 %2B0200." <xzpr9mhr3oo.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> 
References:  <xzpr9mhr3oo.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>  <xzpso6xrcen.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <3784D440.1075EFB3@tdnet.com.br> <199907091622.KAA20280@harmony.village.org> <199907091658.KAA20551@harmony.village.org> 

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In message <xzpr9mhr3oo.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes:
: None on the general concept - but one on the specific example: who
: except root needs to know what df(1) can report when sgid operator?

There is only one case that I can think of.  That case is when someone
has a jaz disk that isn't mounted that they want to see how much space
is available on it.  Not a great example, and this person will need
root to actually mount it.

Warner


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